Time to switch off the engine

Russell Green has sold his business and is looking forward to retirement. Russell Green was apologetic when Mahurangi Matters turned up to interview him about selling his business, Puhoi Motors, after 25 years. It was smoko time. “Can you come back in 20 minutes? I don’t want my pie and tea to go cold.” He suggested we go to the village cafe, where Steve, who served us, said we should ask Green about V8 tractors. So we did. “V8 tractors? OK, yeah right. We had an Iseki with a 440 Dodge engine back in the day,” Green said.It was a beast of a machine – 7.2 litre, 390HP – used in weight-pulling d...